Word: speaker
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...Lecture Hall at 7.30 o'clock, at which time ten-minute speeches will be made. The final trials are scheduled for Saturday in the New Lecture Hall at 7.30 o'clock. At this time the Coolidge Debating Prize of $100 will be awarded to the winning speaker. All members of the interclass debating teams are expected to enter these trials, which are open to all undergraduates...
...Lecture Hall at 7.30 o'clock, at which time ten-minute speeches will be made. The final trials are scheduled for Saturday, February 17, in the New Lecture Hall at 7.30 o'clock. At this time the Coolidge Debating Prize of $100 will be awarded to the winning speaker. All members of the interclass debating teams are expected to enter these trials, which are open to all undergraduates...
Theasurer, P. C. Richards, Goffstown, N. H.; members, J. D. Haggerty, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., W. W. Wade, Trenton, Tenn.; first speaker at the class tree, J. S. Powers, Providence; second speaker at class tree, B. D. Feinberg, Lake Placid, N. Y.; class prophet, J. P. Murphy, New Bedford; class historian, P. H. Keough, New York; class odist, D. P. Spaulding, Providence; class hymnist, J. T. McQuaid, Pawtucket; statistician, A. B. Homer, Providence; president of class supper, R. J. Walsh, Providence; class orator, W. H. Reese Parsons, Pa.; address to undergraduates, T. B. Appleget, New York; class poet...
...hall was refused on the ground that this was "propaganda." Keeping out "propaganda" was attempted in 1911 by the exclusion of Mrs. Pankhurst. Whatever the merits or demerits of Mrs. Pankhurst's opinions might be, this policy was seen to be objectionable, and was apparently abandoned--witness the suffrage speaker's noted move. I am not aware that it has been revived till the Skeffington case...
...sometimes said that Harvard cannot allow propagandists to speak in College buildings because the University will then appear to be backing the speaker. But is this the case? Harvard has allowed Ian Hay to speak in Sanders. Nobody intimated that Harvard was, for that reason, pro-Ally. But when, the next month, Harvard excludes Mrs. Skeffington, the Boston Herald relates the incident on its front page with the statement that "it was generally understood among the students that the action of the College authorities was taken because of Mrs. Skeffington's supposed anti-British sentiments." There was also a foul...